Why Doesn’t Nintendo Just Release ONE System With DVD Playback?
Nintendo is a video game company and claim they are concentrating on keeping GameCube as a videogame console only. In an interview with Next Generation magazine, Nintendo of America’s CEO Howard Lincoln revealed, “you will not be able to play audio CDs on Nintendo’s machine, and you will not be able to play movies”. He went on to explain that Nintendo is a videogame company and “that’s exactly what our device will do – play the best videogames around.” This makes sense, especially when the most popular Sony Playstation2 “software” in Japan has been the Matrix on DVD. You buy Nintendo to play games, not watch movies, right? Conversely, the unimagined explosion of the DVD format, along with the fact PS2 has DVD Playback (hey, it’s selling systems) makes Nintendo foolish not to include it. Money is a big issue though. In accordance with the DVD Forum (a group of international electronics manufacturers) any corporation wishing to release a DVD-branded device capable of playing DVD movies i
